Shofixti
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The Shofixti are a marsupial race of honorable mammals whose homeworld, Kyabetsu, was at Delta Gorno I.
The Shofixti were uplifted to the stars by the Yehat, who have taken the role of an adoptive guardian over the Shofixti. Before the Yehat discovered them, the Shofixti had a feudal culture that closely resembled to that of Earth's medieval Japan.
Shofixti typically have brown fur, and have an extremely short gestation period. Because of this, the Shofixti can reproduce rapidly and age into adulthood within a few months. During the First War, the Shofixti formed the backbone for the Alliance of Free Stars, by providing enough to keep their ships full, even during the bleakest periods of the First War. During the latter stages of the First War, their Scout ships also provided much of the recon for the Alliance.
After the conquest of the Human fleet, the Shofixti and Yehat forces withdrew to the Gorno stars but did not permit the Syreen to follow. As the Ur-Quan Dreadnought force bore down upon Delta Gorno, The Yehat Queen suddenly ordered a withdrawal of every Terminator back to the Serpentis stars. Without the support of the Yehat fleet, the Shofixti ships were no match for the Ur-Quan fleet, but the Shofixti still fought bravely, even as the last of their ships were destroyed. With the Ur-Quan fleet advancing on their homeworld, the Shofixti used a Precursor bomb device to open a hole on the surface of their sun, causing a miniature supernova that incinerated all of the Shofixti-inhabited inner worlds.
This final act of courage and defiance destroyed a third of the combined Ur-Quan fleet, but at the cost of nearly the entire Shofixti race. During the Second War, the Captain was able to find and unite the remaining Shofixti that had survived the destruction of the First War:
- Captain Tanaka (and possibly his brother Katana—battlefield reports vary), whose ship was damaged by a VUX Intruder, was unable to travel to Kyabetsu in time to take part in the defense of Kyabetsu
- The sixteen Shofixti Maidens were captured and kept under cryogenic suspension by Admiral ZEX.
The subsequent "duties" faithfully carried out by the last surviving Shofixti revived the race and helped the New Alliance of Free Stars in the Second War by providing reinforcements for the limited number of human personnel available from the Earth Starbase.